A List of Names, Chicago Style

Laid out in cascading falls of words, the names of the 1894 graduates of the Sherwood grade school in Chicago were organized in groups of tens, alphabetized (well, almost). Surely now lost in obscurity, these graduates of over a century ago soon became someone else’s parents, then grandparents. Many likely spent their entire life living and working in the Chicago area.

Wherever they went after those school years of camaraderie, their names have been frozen in time as one person chose to preserve this graduation program among her personal papers. Agnes Tully Stevens, possible relative of one graduate listed below—Marie M. Tully—included this little memento among so many others she saved from so long ago. This small bit of card stock, decorated simply but fittingly for the occasion, provides me with one solitary link to another still-invisible branch of our family tree.

Graduates:

Florence M. Adams,

       Frank J. Appleton,

              George A. Binney,

                     Cora Adell Byle,

                             Zana E. Crosby,

                                    Edith Abbie DeWolfe,

                                          James Harold Dickie,

                                                 Luke Ballard Dickie,

                                                       Lena A. Durley,

                                                              Matilda Gibson,

Charles F. Gridley,

       Elizabeth Sophia Grill,

              Sarah E. Hecht,

                     Helen M. Hodgman,

                            Harriet Jensen,

                                   Adolph F. Jones,

                                          Ruby Wescot Jones,

                                                 Chas. Edw. McBurney,

                                                         Stanley J. McMahon,

Jeanie Campbell McKinlay,

       George Julius Molitor,

              Maude Althea Moon,

                     Clara M. Nelson,

                            Anna Olivia Nordstrom,

                                   Esther Olson,

                                          Agnes T. Reilly,

                                                 Emil Leonard Renstrom,

                                                        Lillie Gordon Robb,

Magdalena Flora Ruhland,

       Julia Sutherland Rutter,

              Harriet M. Ruud,

                     Maude Annette Schank,

                            Lida W. Sharp,

                                   Lizzie A. Shirley,

                                          Marie M. Tully,

                                                 Alta Corrine White,

                                                        Archie R. Virden